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Starting with Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802, the Configuration Manager client us supported on ARM64 devices. These devices are typically small portable devices such as phones and tablets and often have varying operating systems. So in this ‘cloud-first, mobile-first’ world perhaps we can take this as an indication of where Microsoft could be going with…

In Configuration Manager Current Branch 1710, Microsoft introduced client support for Cryptography: Next Generation (CNG) certificates. Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 adds further support to this to cover HTTPS enabled management points, distribution points and software update points. If you are reading this and have no idea what CNG certificates are then check out these…

Another small addition to Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 is a report which lists the various web browsers out there in your client estate which are set as default. At the moment this is a first draft of the report as it doesn’t render the names properly as you can see. If you reference the…

As part of the improvements added to Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 the product team have added a new report. This report is named “Windows 10 Servicing details for a specific collection” and as the name suggests it reports on the servicing state for a collection containing Windows 10 devices. To run this you will…

Another of the small but useful additions to Configuration Manager in tech preview 1802 is the product life cycle dashboard. This dashboard sits under Asset Intelligence which is in the Assets and Compliance workspace in the SCCM console. The products listed in Asset Intelligence are based on the hardware inventory which inventories the relevant reporting…

Along with the 20 other features included with Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 is a report which extracts the relevant information from your clients in order to use them with Windows AutoPilot. This collates the information from applicable Windows 10 machines (they must be 1703 or later) and the report can be found in the…

One the nice little features announced in Configuration Manager Technical Preview 1802 was deployment templates for task sequences. How many times have you deployed a task sequence and you virtually go into robot mode hitting next, next, tick box, finish? In the same was as you can use templates in automatic deployment rules for software…